CABINET D'EXPERTISE COMPTABLE DEJON

Dejon & Associés is an accounting practice on Rue Albert Ier in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, between Liège and Huy, in the province of Liège. The office reports supporting self-employed people and small businesses as readily as larger companies, with an offering organised in three blocks it presents separately: accounting, tax and management advice. Structuring it by discipline rather than by client type makes the offering legible from the home page onwards.

The first block is accounting. The firm offers full management of the file or supervision alone where the business does its own entries, preparation of the balance sheet and filing of the annual accounts, along with interim accounting statements. It states that it selects the accounting system according to the size and activity of the business, and makes those interim statements available regularly. That is what separates useful accounting from merely compliant accounting: knowing in June where the result stands still allows action on it.

The second block is tax, set out matter by matter. The office prepares personal income tax and corporate income tax returns, prepares and files VAT returns and listings, carries out tax optimisation and calculates advance payments. That last point has a direct and measurable effect on the final bill: a company that does not pay in advance incurs a surcharge, and working out the amount due in the right quarter is part of a good office's routine work.

The firm also announces the defence of the client's interests during a tax audit. Not every office displays that service, and it changes the nature of the relationship: it assumes knowing the file precisely enough to justify entries to the tax authorities, sometimes years after the fact, rather than referring the client to a tax lawyer once the audit begins.

The third block falls under management advice and covers structural decisions. The office supports the choice of the most suitable legal form, incorporation with preparation of the financial plan, company valuations and liquidation, merger and demerger transactions. Valuation is a capability of its own: it is used on a sale, the entry of a partner or an inheritance, and it calls for a defensible method rather than a figure offered from memory.

The site publishes client testimonials and a list of frequently asked questions, two elements that give a sense of how the office works before the first contact. The client base brings together self-employed people, small and mid-sized companies and larger companies around Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, on the Liège to Huy axis. For a business in that area, the interest of the practice lies in continuous coverage, from day-to-day bookkeeping through to restructuring transactions, without having to change contact once the file turns technical.